Facing and solving the multiple issues concerning energy is the single most pressing problem that we face as a species. There is a lot of media coverage about energy, alternative energy and global warming, but what has been missing is the knowledge and point of view of scientists, at least in the main stream media. If you have missed the first three interviews, please scroll down the right side of this blog and click on ‘Scientists – Interviews’.
William H.Calvin is a theoretical neurobiologist, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. I had the good fortune to meet Bill at the Future of Energy conference hosted by the Foundation for the Future several months ago. I have also had the pleasure to read excerpts of his upcoming book “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, a book that could well become a classic as it frames the conversation and offers up a strategy and vision to effectively deal with Climate Change.... The book itself will be out in February by the University of Chicago Press. They did my other climate book (A Brain for All Seasons) which won several book awards..
What prompted you to write this book?
The urgency of the situation. I figured that, as a newly emeritus medical school professor who has been following climate science since 1984, I could afford taking the three years to write it. Better that than taking a real climate scientist away from research and teaching time. And I felt that I had the right skill set. A Ph.D. in biophysics makes it easy for me to dig into both the physics and the biology involved. And thanks to talking shop with the neurosurgeons every day for twenty years, I do know something about when you can afford to wait and when decisive action is needed.
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- MeganMcKenzie
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- added August 21, 2008
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For those who care what happens today, tomorrow and ten years from now.
With thanks to Ogmin for pointing me in this direction.
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- MeganMcKenzie
- 5 months ago
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thanks McKenzie
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I can't wait to buy his book. I am reading everything I can get my hands on even if it is painful to read. I appreciate you posting this Megan
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Good post MeganMckenzie
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- goldenways
- 5 months ago
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There is the picture of a real jerk. His expertise is in neurobiology, and teaches psychiatry, so he predicts climate change.
This teach of psychiatry is going to turn the economy upside down on some theory that we are going into an extreme warming spell, because of burning carbon.
These green nazi's never speak of the economical termoil of their plans for carbon taxes, and distribution to countries that do burn as much carbon.
No all these green weenies say is that the sky is falling.
I think the bird is looking in his ear to see if there's a brain.
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All I need say is Nikola Tesla the forgotten wizard out of his time. He paved the way for the modern world as we know it today. We need his 700 some patents to be released for public use, and conquer the greedy oil mongers.
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- saveplanetearth
- 5 months ago
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Actually, a psychiatrist might be just the ticket in combating the denial and delusion with which the global warming movement is confronted.
Ok maybe fifty of em.
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actually, mo1y and others, there is very little evidence that acting to control or reverse climate change (and pollution) will have negative economic consequences, and considerable evidence to the contrary.
walmart, to take the biggest example first, says it has begun to save big money==BILLIONS per year over its global operations== because of the energy efficiency, waste reduction, and packaging reduction programs in its environmental responsibility strategy.
each example or each operation or each business might need its own analysis--but the general picture is a big plus for business and the economy -
Good article. Is there any newer information on this?
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- sublimeuniverse
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